The counter-insurgency lessons commonly drawn from the Malayan Emergency ignore strategy in the opening phase or dismiss it as characterised by mistakes committed in a policy vacuum. This article argues that the British ...

Amidst the general disappointment that accompanied last month’s world summit, there were several important rays of hope. One of these, and perhaps in the longer-term the most important, was the General Assembly’s (GA) ...

This work is the second volume of a trilogy of works on the problem of harm in world politics. It is the first work to synthesise elements of process sociology and the English School analysis of international sociery in a ...

Africa is in a deep and persistent malaise. It is by far the least developed continent economically, and the most conflict-prone politically. In policy-making circles and media characterisations, it is 'the hopeless ...

This paper assesses the challenges that China-its government and people-face by embracing the Internet. It considers how a state apparatus determined to cling on to power and contain the democratic potential of the information ...

The book brings an 'international society' perspective to understanding the nature of the vulnerable. Starting from a 'social vulnerability' point of view, it demonstrates the ways in which international society contributes ...

This article reflects on the fiftieth anniversary of the journal International Relations in terms of world-system theory of Immanuel Wallerstein. It shows how the magazine and the circumstances of its origin and evolution ...

This article explores intergovernmental relations between the devolved Welsh Assembly Government and the central UK government through the prism of two case studies focusing on examples of Welsh sub-state diplomacy, the ...